Vita S. Norberti Canonicorum Praemonstratensium Patriarchae Antverpiae Apostoli Archiepisc. Magdeburg. Ac Totius Germaniae Primatis. Concinnabat et Elogiis illustrabat R. P. F. Io. Chrysostomus Vander Sterre S. T. B. For. in S. Michaele Prior Antverpiae. Admodum Reverendo Patri Ac Domino D. Matthaeo Iersellio Ecclesiae S. Michaelis Antverp. Ord. Praem. Abbati Amplissimo Th. Gallaeus L.M.D.C.Q.
Antverpiae:: Theodorus Gallaeus Excudit,, (M.DC.XXII).
Physical Description
[8] p., t.pl., port., 34 pl.: 98 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[T.pl., dedic.] - Præclara quædam de Candido Praemonstratensi Ordine, eiusque Sancto Duce, Magnorum Elogia; Approbatio - [Port.] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed.
The work is dedicated by F. Ioannes Chrysostomus Vander Sterre to D. Matthæo Iersselio.
Summary Note
No publication-date is given on the title-plate; the dedication and Approbatio carry the date 1622.
The plates comprise the title plate, a portrait of St Norbert and thirty-four numbered and captioned plates showing incidents of his life.
Provenance
The front pastedown carries an 18th-century bookplate, of 'CP', or 'PC'. Acquired between 1768 and 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Copy Note
Inscribed on rear pastedown, '90 sans les titres'.
Binding Note
Contemporary vellum; spine lettered 'Vita St Norberti'. Bound with 'Icones sanctae Clarae' (n.d.) and 'Theatrum vitam, virtutes ... Gabrielis Maria' (1642).
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